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Twist to child abuse case
S&O factory workers hold peaceful demo
Boss orders workers to do daughter’s homework

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:20 PM PST

A seven-year-old boy in Damansara Damai was beaten by his mother after he was caught drinking beer, reported Harian Metro.

The boy's school teacher had initially lodged a police report against the mother after bruises were found on his hands, back and shoulders.

"However, investigations later revealed that the boy had in fact been punished by his mother for drinking beer while he was at his neighbour's house. He has been sent for counselling," said a police source.

The boy had been playing at his neighbour's house when he sneaked away to the kitchen.

The neighbour was later shocked to find him chugging down beer. When confronted, the boy had said that he wanted to try "grown-up water".

He was later handed over to his mother, who "disciplined" him by lashing him with a wire hanger.

>The daily also highlighted the case of a religious teacher at a school in Kuala Lumpur who was threatened by two of her students after she told them off for having tattoos on their hands.

In the incident on Thursday, the teacher, 28, had scolded the two 14-year-olds when they disrupted her class before noticing their tattoos.

When she told them that having tattoos went against the school's regulations as well as religious teaching, one of them threatened to kill her if she meddled in their affairs.

Realising that the students were out of control, the woman then contacted the disciplinary teacher. A report was subsequently lodged at the Salak Selatan police station.

It was later found that one of the students had previously been investigated by the police for a criminal offence.

> Kosmo! reported that a former bank clerk had been charged with misusing a debit card to extract RM50,772.40 from actress Lisa Surihani's bank account.

Shawallinah Jaffar, 31, from Kudat in Sabah, claimed trial to two counts of misusing the card at the Kuantan magistrate's court on Thursday.

She had reportedly committed the offence by withdrawing the sum from a joint account held by the Istanbul Aku Datang star and her mother at a Maybank branch in Kuantan between Jan 7 and 10.

She was charged under Section 408 of the Penal Code for criminal breach of trust and Section 403 of the Penal Code for dishonest misappropriation of property.

● Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.

S&O factory workers hold peaceful demo

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:20 PM PST

SOME 300 factory workers of S&O (formerly Sharp & Roxy) held a peaceful demonstration in front of their factory in Bakar Arang Industrial Estate in Sungai Petani as they were unhappy with their salary review, Makkal Osai reported.

Electronic Factory Workers Union spokesman N. Balakrishnan said the management had only agreed to a 3.5% salary increase while the union had asked for 5%.

> Doctors at KEM Hospital in Mumbai, north India, removed a napkin from a 30-year-old woman's abdomen on Thursday after she complained of severe pains, Tamil Nesan reported.

It was reported that Kalpana Sarate was diagnosed with a tumour near her uterus and underwent surgery at a private hospital in April last year. Somehow, doctors forgot to remove a napkin from her abdomen.

Within a month of the operation, Kalpana had pains in her abdomen again. When she went to the hospital, doctors gave her medicine and sent her home. But her condition worsened over the months and finally her family took her to the KEM Hospital.

> A taxi had to be hired to call the fire brigade when fire broke out at the Surya Sen Market in Kolkata, north India, on Wednesday morning, Malaysia Nanban reported.

The fire started at 3.45am and when calls made to the fire station went unanswered, someone rushed to the fire station in a taxi.

Boss orders workers to do daughter’s homework

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:20 PM PST

A COMPANY boss in China forced his workers to do his 12-year-old daughter's homework, China Press reported.

Nine employees from the firm in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province, spent three days and two nights to complete the task.

One of them, who complained to the local Qianjiang Evening News, said it was not the first time they were asked to do homework for the primary school pupil.

"Before, we usually helped her with mathematics and assembled small models, but this time, it was a big project. She had to describe her hometown with words or pictures," he said.

He added that the team wrote an essay, took photographs, made a videoclip and drew a four-column comic and a painting for the girl.

"The most difficult thing was forcing myself to think like a girl," said another 35-year-old man.

> Major Chinese dailies reported that The Voice of China, a popular singing competition, planned to launch a talent search in foreign lands, including Malaysia, in its second season.

Chief director of the show, Jin Lei, told a press conference in Beijing that auditions would also be held in the United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and several European countries.

The show is the Chinese version of American reality show, The Voice, and the first season of the programme saw a strong panel of judges comprising Chinese heavyweights Na Ying, Liu Huan, Yang Kun and Taiwanese singer-songwriter Harlem Yu.

It was rumoured that the organiser was currently persuading Faye Wong and Jacky Cheung to be judges.

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Jumaat, 1 Mac 2013

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